Looking-glass ob mirror



ANITE) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVANUS F. BROOKS, OF WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOKING-GLASS OR MIRROR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,965, dated April 24, 1860.

To all whom it may concern: p

Be it known that I, SYLvANUs F. BRooKs, of Weston, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have 'invented a Combined Looking-Glass and Drawer; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, in which* Figure l, represents a perspective view of the combined looking-glass and draw, showing the draw pulled out partially from the mirror frame. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the glass, frame and draw.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

The obj ect of this invention is to combine in a suitable manner with a hanging mirror, or looking glass, a draw for holding toilet articles, such as pomades, perfumery, combs, brushes and such like articles that are gen erally used in conjunction with a mirror. The invention provides for holding the draw containing these articles in any position in which it may be placed so that it will remain open or closed without catches or buttons or the like, and thus the articles will be as handy as if the glass was placed on a table and the table was used to rest the articles on. The mirror is to be hung up in any convenient place against a wall, and it will be found very convenient for preserving toilet articles from getting misplaced. The invention dispenses with the ordinary draw, and standards for supporting the glass, and a table for holding such, and the introduction of the draw within the frame of the mirror will not materially enhance the cost of the article, while it combines with a looking glass, a very neat, portable, and convenient article of furniture as will be hereinafter described and represented.

The invention consists in combining with a looking-glass and frame, a draw which is to be hung within said frame by weights, or

other equivalent substitute in such a manner that the draw may be opened and remain in its open state by the weights alone. The whole being made in such a manner as to be hung up against a wall in the same manner as those of the present make.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invent-ion, I will proceed to describe it.

In the drawings A represents a looking glass, or more properly speaking, a mirror which may be of any shape or size. This glass is set in a frame B, the face of which may be plain or highly ornamental, according to the taste and expense. This frame B, is made somewhat deeper, or thicker, projecting out back of the glass for the purpose of receiving a draw D, that slides up from the bottom as represented in the drawings. This draw is provided with a partition or rack C, for receiving and holding toilet articles as shown in Fig. l, and it is held up within the frame B, by cords a, and weights, represented in dotted lines, which weights are on each side of the draw, and move up and down as the draw is opened or closed; the cords a, pass up through the top of the Vframe B, and over grooved pulleys E E, se-

cured to the top of said frame. The weights should both be equal to the weight of the draw, so that the draw will remain in the place it is put, either open or closed. This arrangement is now to be hung up against a wall in any convenient situation as above stated, and it combines a toilet draw with a looking-glass frame.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The within described and represented combination of a toilet draw with a looking glass frame as a new article of manufacture.

SYLVANUS F. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

EDWIN I-IoBBs, ELLA M. HoBBs. 

